Arash Khabbazibasmenj

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Arash Khabbazibasmenj,

Embedded Algorithm Development Engineer,
Analog Devices Inc.
Ottawa, Canada

Phone: 416.578.5141
Email: khabbazi + circule letter a + ualberta + dot + ca

Industrial Experience:

Embedded Algorithm Development Engineer at Analog Devices Inc., Ottawa, Canada Mar. 2018 - Present
Software Engineer III at Cisco., Kanata, Canada Feb. 2017 - Feb. 2018
DSP Engineer at Massfidelity., Toronto, Canada, May 2015 - Feb. 2017
DSP Research Engineer at UCIC., Richmond Hill, Canada Dec. 2014 - May 2015

Academic Experience:

Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, London, Canada, 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2013

Education:

Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2013
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2009
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2006

Publication:

Google Scholar Page

Patents:

[P1] Arash Khabbazibasmenj, Benjamin George Webster, Joseph David Caci, ''Wave field synthesis by synthesizing spatial transfer function over listening region ," Publication of US-9497561B1, 2016.

Refereed Journals:

[J1] A. Hassanien, S. A. Vorobyov, and A. Khabbazibasmenj, ''Transmit radiation pattern invariance in MIMO radar with application to DOA estimation," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1609-1613, Oct. 2015.

[J2] A. Khabbazibasmenj, A. Hassanien, S. A. Vorobyov, and M. W. Morency, ''Efficient transmit beamspace design for search-free based DOA estimation in MIMO radar," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 1490-1500, March 2014.

[J3] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, ''Robust adaptive beamforming for general-rank signal model with positive semi-definite constraint via POTDC," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 23, pp. 6103-6117, Dec. 2013.

[J4] A. Khabbazibasmenj, F. Roemer, S. A. Vorobyov and M. Haardt, ''Sum-rate maximization in two-way AF MIMO relaying: Polynomial time solutions to a class of DC programming problems," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 5478-5493, Oct. 2012.

[J5] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, and A. Hassanien, ''Robust adaptive beamforming based on steering vector estimation with minimal prior information," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol.~60, no.~6, pp.~2974-2987, June 2012.

[J6] A. Khabbazibasmenj and S. A. Vorobyov, ''Power allocation based on SEP minimization in two-hop decode-and-forward relay networks," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 3954-3963, Aug. 2011.

[J7] A. Khabbazibasmenj, Esmaeil Atashpaz Gargari and Caro Lucas, ''Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Minimum Bit Error Rate Beamforming," Int. J. Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 1, Nos. 1/2, pp. 125-133., 2009.

Refereed Conferences:

[C1] E. Nosrati, X. Wang, A. Khabbazibasmenj , AM Akhtar, ''Secrecy enhancement via cooperative relays in multi-hop communication systems," IEEE 83rd Vehicular Technology Conference 2016, pp. 1-6.

[C2] K. Tong, X. Wang, A. Khabbazibasmenj , A. Dounavis, ''Optimum reference node deployment for TOA-based localization," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015, pp. 3252-3256.

[C3] E. Nosrati, X. Wang, A. Khabbazibasmenj , ''Secrecy capacity enhancement in two-hop DF relaying systems in the presence of eavesdropper," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015, pp. 7365-7369.

[C4] A. Khabbazibasmenj , SA Vorobyov''Generalized quadratically constrained quadratic programming for signal processing," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2014 , pp. 7629-7633.

[C5] J. Zhang, S. A. Vorobyov, A. Khabbazibasmenj, and M. Haardt, ''Sum rate maximization in multi-operator two-way relay networks with a MIMO AF relay via POTDC," 21st European Signal Processing Conf., EUSIPCO’2013 , Marrakech, Morocco, Sept. 9–13, 2013. (Invited Paper)

[C6] A. Khabbazibasmenj, M. A. Girnyk, S. A. Vorobyov, M. Vehkapera, L. K. Rasmussen, ''On the optimal precoding for MIMO Gaussian wire-tap channels," 10th Inter. Sympos. Wireless Commun. Systems, ISWCS’2013, Ilmenau, Germany, Aug. 27–30, 2013, pp. 356–359.

[C7] A. Khabbazibasmenj and S. A. Vorobyov, ''Two-way relay beamforming design: Proportional fair and max-min rate fair approaches using POTDC," 38th IEEE Inter. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP’2013, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 26–31, 2013, pp. 4997-5001.

[C8] A. Hassanien, M. W. Morency, A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, J.-Y. Park, and S.-J. Kim, ''Two-dimentional transmit beamforming for MIMO radar with sparse symmetric arrays," IEEE Radar Conf. , Ottawa, ON, Canada, Apr. 29–May 3, 2013, pp. 4139-4143.

[C9] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, A. Hassanien, and M. W. Morency, ''Transmit beamspace design for direction finding in colocated MIMO radar with arbitrary receive array and even number of waveforms," 46th Annual Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Nov. 4-7, 2012, pp. 1307-1311. (Nominated for the Best Student Paper Award)

[C10] J. Zhang, F. Roemer, M. Haardt, A. Khabbazibasmenj, and S. A. Vorobyov, ''Sum rate maximization for multi-pair two-way relaying with single-antenna amplify and forward relays," 37th IEEE Inter. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP'2012, Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 25-30, 2012, pp. 2477-2480. (Runner-up Best Student Paper Award)

[C11] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, F. Roemer, and M. Haardt, ''Polynomial-time DC (POTDC) for sum-rate maximization in two-way AF MIMO relaying," 37th IEEE Inter. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP'2012, Kyoto, Japan, Mar. 25-30, 2012, pp. 2889-2892.
[C12] A. Khabbazibasmenj and S. A. Vorobyov, ''A computationally efficient robust adaptive beamforming for general-rank signal models with positive semi-definitness constraint," 4th IEEE Inter. Workshop Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP'11, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 13-16, 2011, pp.~185-188.

[C13] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, and A. Hassanien, ''Transmit beamspace design for direction finding in colocated MIMO radar with arbitrary receive array," in Proc. 36th IEEE Inter. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP'2011, Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011, pp. 2784-2787.

[C14] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. A. Vorobyov, and A. Hassanien, ''Robust adaptive beamforming via estimating steering vector based on semidefinite relaxation," in Proc. 44th Annual Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Nov.~7-10, 2010, pp.~1102-1106.

[C15] A. Khabbazibasmenj and S. A. Vorobyov, ''Power allocation in decode-and-forward cooperative networks via SEP minimization," in Proc. 3rd IEEE Inter. Workshop Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, CAMSAP'09, Aruba, Dutch Antilles, Dec.~13-16, 2009, pp.~328-331.

[C16] A. Khabbazibasmenj, S. Nader-Esfahani, "Power allocation in an amplify-and-forward cooperative network for outage probability minimization", in Proc. the 4th International Symposium on telecommunication, Tehran, Iran, August 27-28, pp. 241-245.

Thesis :

[T1] Arash Khabbazibasmenj , ''Generalized Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming and Its Applications in Array Processing and Cooperative Communications ," University of Alberta, 2013.

Selected Honours and Awards

NSERC Industrial R&D Fellowship ($ 60,000), Jan. 2015 - Dec. 2016.
Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarships in ICT ($ 31,500), May 2011-May 2012.
Finalist of the Best Student Paper Contest in Asilomar 2012, Nov. 2012.( Link )
Provost Doctoral Entrance Award, Sept. 2010--Sept. 2011.
Provost Doctoral Entrance Award, Sept. 2009--Sept. 2010.
Part of Carl Zeiss Award, Germany 2011.
Visiting Student Award from the Graduate School on Mobile Communications, Germany.
Travel Grant Award to CAMSAP 2011 Conference.
The Professional Development Grant (PDG), University of Alberta, May 2013.
The Professional Development Grant (PDG), University of Alberta, Nov. 2012.
J Gordin Kaplan Graduate Student Award, May 2013.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, University of Alberta, Canada

Convex Optimization and Applications (ECE780), Winter 2011
Programming for Electrical and Computer Engineers (ENCMP100), Fall 20011
Numerical Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers (EE231), Winter 2012

Activities

IEEE student member
Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Letters
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology